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21 " A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the other hand, sometimes one remembers well the name, without knowing if anything of the being, whose name it was, survives in these pages. "
― Marcel Proust , Time Regained
22 " If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monuments; if you want to understand the real life and the wisdom of great men who are long gone, go to their libraries! "
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23 " I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets. "
24 " Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. "
25 " Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "
